Last, Nana2009-06-042009-06-042003Schuster, Kristin Akkerman. "Sea change or, impending dune." (2003) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/17624">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/17624</a>.https://hdl.handle.net/1911/17624The slow disaster of shoreline erosion has been met with various human attempts to control the relationship between Galveston Island and the Gulf of Mexico. In territorializing the island as private property, the main economic draw (the beach) is being sacrificed as the sandbar is increasingly expected to behave like a stable landmass. Private Property Rights and Public Beach Access clash as the difference between the land and the sea refuses to manifest itself as a line drawn through space. There is latent potential within the land itself to work with a beach access infrastructure that operates as a mesh. Such a system can transgress problematic territorial boundaries and mark out multiple processes of reterritorialization as they are occurring on the site. In this way, the forces at work in shaping the island can become culturally relevant in a constructive way, altering the human relationship with the land.75 ppapplication/pdfengCopyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder.Landscape architectureUrban planningRegional planningThesisRICE2910reformatted digitalTHESIS ARCH. 2003 SCHUSTER